Physics 250 - String Theory II: QFT/Gravity Correspondence

Here is the list of available selections for the final reading assignment. If you choose a paper from this list, please don't forget to email me to verify that nobody else has been assigned to it yet; don't start working on the assignment unless you hear from me that the paper is yours. If you prefer another paper, not on this list, please check with me that your choice is acceptable.

[1] J. Maldacena and A. Strominger, "AdS_3 Black Holes and a Stringy Exclusion Principle," hep-th/9804085 (Aleksey Mints)

[2] J. Maldacena, J. Michelson and A. Strominger, "Anti-de Sitter Fragmentation," hep-th/9812073

[3] J. de Boer, E. Verlinde and H. Verlinde, "On the Holographic Renormalization Group," hep-th/9912012 (Liang Yu)

[4] J. Maldacena and H. Ooguri, "Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model, Part I: The Spectrum," hep-th/0001053 (this work has Part II and III as well!)

[5] J. Maldacena and C. Nunez, "Towards the Large N Limit of Pure N=1 Super Yang Mills," hep-th/0008001

[6] S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov and A.M. Polyakov, "A Semiclassical Limit of the Gauge/String Correspondence," hep-th/0204051 (David Poland)

[7] S. Frolov and A.A. Tseytlin, "Semiclassical Quantization of Rotating Superstring in AdS_5 x S^5," hep-th/0204226 (Yoon Pyo Hong)

[8] S. Gukov, E. Martinec, G. Moore and A. Strominger, "Chern-Simons Gauge Theory and the AdS_3/CFT_2 Correspondence," hep-th/0403225 (Cindy Keeler)

[9] J. Karczmarek, J. Maldacena and A. Strominger, "Black Hole Non-Formation in the Matrix Model," hep-th/0411174 (Bom Soo Kim)

[9a] J. Maldacena, "Long Strings in Two Dimensional String Theory and Nonsinglets in the Matrix Model," hep-th/0503112 (Stephen Glassman)

[10] O. Aharony, S. Minwalla and T. Wiseman, "Plasma-Balls in Large N Gauge Theories and Localized Black Holes," hep-th/0507219

[11] J. Kinney, J. Maldacena, S. Minwalla and S. Raju "An Index for 4 Dimensional Superconformal Theories," hep-th/0510251